Murray Collingwood
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:45:20 -0700
Package: FTPD Version: 0.17-29 I'm trying to resurrect #71171: How come this is still a bug 10 years on...?
I have just come across this bug in Debian 2.6.26-13 lenny2 (all current and stable). FTPD is still the default FTP server for Debian after all these years, and generally it works really well. However in the last few weeks I needed to create some FTP accounts that were to be used by people other than myself (I own the server so I didn't want these other users accessing files they shouldn't be). So I configured "ftpchroot" to restrict them to their home directories - this worked fine, however with only one problem - they can't view the contents of their directories using FTP. I have tried with FileZilla and with gFTP - both give the same result. They allow each user to upload files but there is no directory listing. The previous response to this bug was that it is not a bug and we just need to copy the 'ls' command into the /lib folder... along with any other libraries required. I tried copying 'ls' to the /lib folder but it didn't fix the problem and I can't find any more documentation about it, so I think we can define it as a bug until at least documentation is provided indicating how it should be configured to work. Cheers Murray -- Murray Collingwood Focus Computing p +61 415 24 26 24 http://www.focus-computing.com.au